The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-24 00:00:00

Meyerbeer—A Character. Among all those who have won an universal re• putation in dramatic music, Meyerbeer was the most timid, the moat insecure as to his own purposes, with all his gigantic notions of effect. His operas were not so much written as stuck together, bit by bit, while the rehearsals of them were going on. If a machinist under a paper cap crossed the stage, and made some irreverent remark on the length of this scene—or that other procession—the composer shrank up, faltered, held council on the matter— and after having been inexorable in his first pre tensions, conceded, with a humility which became ignoble, in regard to the man under the paper cap. He did not know what his effects were to be, or where they were to be made, but went on trying, contriving, and like the bird that builds a nest, bringing, hero a straw—there a bit of wood —anon, a fragment of wood or stone—and, in the end, build ing not so much a nest as a habitation for musical drama. No stone was left unturned by him to procure —one might better say to force—a success. It may be questioned whether so skilful an artist ever existed, who employed with so elaborate a patience every machinery of compliment and cajolery as he did. He prepared for the first representations of his operas by paying money right and left, with an anxiety humiliating to think of, and on a scale of expense impossible to any other who had not an ample private fortune. No ante-chamber was too mean for hint to be willing to wait in it, pro- vided the master of the house had the slightest shred of influence on press or public. He shared Sir Robert Walpole's opinion that every man has his price, and would return to attempt and to tempt every imaginable assistance with a pertinacity nothing short of whimsical, but which was rather distressing to be exposed to. The Boulevard des Italiens, a sort of French Rialto for musical rumour, streamed with tales of his expedients, months before his operas Were painfully born. One year, said rumour, Meyer beer had been buying up all the stage organs, to prevent his new organ effect being forestalled. There Was a later tale how he had connived to the crip pling of the organ at the Grand Opera, when the lame was to help a great scene in Nieodemeyri's " Stradella." Another year, would come simmering stories of pilot banquets after the fashion of Lucullus (and well did Meyerbeer understood the art of dining, till ill health, and with it hypochondria, claimed him). He had no objection to bespeaking opera books at munificent prices, from the men of feuilleton, home or foreign, though it did not follow that the books were to be set. I can speak to his face of puzzled inquietude, when one of the fraternity ventured to decline a commission for such a piece of work—in its very purpose, and by its very essence, unproducible. Though he harrassed everyone during his rehearsals to the point of exas peration, by at first refusing the smallest concession, when the hour of performance drew nigh he was seised with a cowering terror, which would yield or admit any change. Music lasting one hour and a quarter was cut out of " Le Prophete" within a very few weeks of its production :—and its great situation—the one of facination, in the fourth or Cathedral act, would have possibly shared the same fate, had not Madame Viardot, the original Fides, backed by Ary Scheffer (how all this comes back like a thing of yesterday !), pleaded to be allowed to show what could be represented by such an actress in such a situation.—Dickens's " All the Year Round." MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The commercial community are now anxiously hoping for another reduction on Thursday next in the Bank of England minimum, and, as a matter of course, there is very little business transacted in the interim. The public are holding over their bills in anticipation of the event, and the rates now current are from 7 per cent. upwards. Capital is abundant, gold has continued to flow into the Bank of England, and as competition among the bill brokers during the past fortnight has been excited, the authorities cannot have had many applicants for discount. Under all the circumstances, there fore, there seems great probability that the expected alteration will be realised. A further sum of £llO,OOO in bar gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. The 27th inst. has been appointed by the com mittee of the Stock Exchange for a special settle ment in the English scrip of the Mexican Loan, which is to be included in the official list. A call of £2 per share, payable on or before the 18th proximo, has been announced by the directors of the Financial Corporation. The letters of allotment of the Tavistock Iron Works and Steel Ordnance Company (Limited), are now ready. The shareholders of the Bank of London held a special meeting to-day, when the resolutions passed on the 9th instant fur increasing the capital were duly confirmed. Daring the last few days a moderate amount of business has been transacted in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets. Sugars have been in ', a ir request at fall rates, while the dealings in coffee aave been to an average extent without material change as regards values. For rice, fruit, and spices quotations have remained unchanged, and business In the tallow market has been dull, but at steady Prices. The annual meeting of the National Bank was held to day—Mr J. N. Al`Kenua in the chair. The report, which was unanimously adopted, stated that since the accounts were made up a dividend at the rate Of £8 per cent. per annum, and an extra dividend of 16 4, per share, was paid in Feb. last; the amount of undivided profits after these payments stood at £ 1 29,174, 16s. 10d., as compared with £lO3 729 3s. 10d. of the previous year. The directors had increased the capital from L 1,000,000 to £2,000,000 by the issue of 20,000 new shares, at a premium of £25 per share to the old shareholders, and £3O per share to the general public. The General Contract Company is a new under taking just formed for constructing, maintaining, and working of railways, manufacturing railway plant and rolling stock for sale or hire, reclaiming lands, building reservoirs, roads, bridges, docks, harbours, piers, breakwaters, &c., &c. The direc tors have secured the business of the eminent con tractor, Mr. Rowland Brotherhood, who has agreed to transfer the whole of his business to the com pany upon terms which may be considered as favourable. The works, which are situated at the Great Western Railway station at Chippenham, together with the plant and existing contracts, are to be taken at Et valuation, and one-third of the amount ie to be paid in shares. The capital re quired is £1,000,000, but only half that amount is to be called up in the first instance. The English, S vedish, and Continental Financial Company (Limited) require a capital of one million, in 20,000 £5O shares, proposing a first issue of 10,000 shares, 2,500 of which are reserved for Sweden. No call is to exceed AA Three months to elapse between each call, and it is not intended to call up more than 115 per share. The directors, whose names will be found in another column, are gentlemen of high standing in the commercial 'world, set forth the objects of the association as in tended to promote the development of the resources of Sweden and N orway, and by thus applying the subscribed capital they are of opinion that a large field will be opened up for safe and profitable in. vestment. In Norway and Sweden no such insti tution exists, consequently the vast forests, the in exhaustible mineral deposits, the agriculture, the rising commerce of the country demand the finan cial aid which this company proposes to give. After a close investigation, and looking at the 'narked success of the Enskilda Bank and similar institutions, the directors are confident of a satis factory pecuniary result from the operations of the company, which eventuality has been borne testi mony to by a distinguished official of the country. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this morning, according to Renter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentee were 66f. 75c. Firm. A few dealings in the English stocks this morn ing have occasioned an improvement of in the Funds compared with yesterday. The continued favourable prospect of monetary affairs has also im parted a firmer tone, and Consols are 911 2- for money, and 90-1 Z, less the dividend, for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 89} ; Exchequer Bills, 13s dis. ; India 5 per Cents., 1051 ; Debentures, 981 ; En faced do., 104; and the Bonds, 24s die. There has been a general improvement in the Foreign Market, and business is moderately active, Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 701, 711 ; do., Con solide3, 4S 4 ; Mexican. 448 45k; do. New Loan, Ito prem.; Greek, 231 Z-; Spanish Passive, 348-,; Portuguese, 4S ; Russian Scrip, 3k 1, prem. ; Swedish do., 1 to 2 prem ; and the Confederate Loan, 65 67. _ _ . Business in the Railway Share Market has con• tinned very quiet, and there is little change of importance to report as regards values. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares also remain ex ceedingly inactive, but generally support previous prices, BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Console Ditto Account, May 8 per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Cent B9b New 2i per Cent. Jan. 1891 Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 Aanuities, 30 yrs, expire sth J an., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — March. June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 24 & 3 per Cent. 13 dis Ditto £5OO .. Ditto £lOO and £200 Bank England Stk, 51 per Ct. Ditto Account INDI ILN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 10i per Cent., April 1874 217 Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Ditto Account Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888.. Do - Certificates Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. 931 Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. 104 Ditto 51 per Cent., May, 1879 — Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 _ Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 98k Ditto BondsLl,ooo - . 24 die Ditto under £1,000.. FORBIGN FUNDS—ONIC O'CLOOX. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 — Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent - .. - Ditto Account — Chilian 6 per Cent — Ditto 4} pet Cent — Colombian 6 per Cent — Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1864 Ditto Scrip £5O paid — pm Equador New. Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Egyptian 7 per Cent — - ]Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 231 Ditto Account Ditto Coupons — Ditto Account lOl Guatemala 6 per Cent. .. Ditto, 1830 and 1859 [Winn a per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) Nlexican 3 per Cent .... Ditto Account 4si 41 Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent. — Ditto Deferred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) -- Peruvian 41 per Cent . . Ditto Acc - otinv... .... - .3 - Ditto 3 pelt Cent. (Uribarren) — Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account ',MR Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 Ditto Account _ 48f _ Russian 5 per Cent., 18 22 , I St — Ditto 4t per Cent., 1850 — Ditto 3 per Cent 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 — Ditto 1864 Scrip, £lO paid Ditto Anglo-Dath. Sardinian 5 per Cent .. — Ditto Account — Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account — Ditto Passive Ditto Account 34] Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded _ Ditto Account .. Swedish, 4 per Cent Ditto Sonp, £2O paid Pm Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account — Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account 6Bl 9 Si Ditto, £IOO Bonds 731 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account .. 701 Ditto £lOO Bonds 7l} 70t Ditto 1863 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent lOO/ Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account — Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account s6a i Ditto 6 per Cent, 1864 Ditto 11 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Lond .o. Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins. Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f... — Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 64 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, 5 per Cent,, 1861, Ex. 25 francs.. TWO O'CLOCK. Console Money Ditto Account .... 90t i s d Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market firmer. Sales, about 6,000 bales, Im ports, 15,924, Previously, 8,290. FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. At the last sitting the Minister of Public Instruct• tion announced that the Minister of the Imperial Household and the Fine Arts had ordered a bust of the late r‘l. Biot, executed by M. Lequesne, to be placed in the Palace of the Institute. A paper was received from M. Vionnois, describing six brick kilns of the Gallo-Roman period discovered at La Roche-dtahay, in the department of Ille-et- Vilaine. The fragments of tiles lying about suffi ciently prove their origin, their shape being Gallo- Roman, and some of them even bearing the trade mark of the brickmaker, which, however, it has been impossible to decipher. The tiles are fiat, 40 centimetres in breadth, and two in thickness, with lateral rims. The kilns were all alike, and one of them is still in good preservation. It is rectan gular, 2.08 metres long by 1.70 in breadth ; its walls are vertical; the fire-place is 10 centimetres deeper than the kiln itself, and separated from it by a floor resting on three supports, and pierced with holes, through which the flame penetrated between the tiles placed verti cally in rows, The holes near the perimeter are wider below than above, while the contrary is the case with those near the centre. From all this it appears that bricks used to be burnt in kilns similar to those now used for earthenware. 11. Garraud communicated a method imagined by him for preventing the terrible consequences of explosion by fire-damp, or at least for reducing them to mere pecuniary damage without loss of life. His plan is to determine explosions by means of the electric . induction -spark of Ruhenkorff's machine before the miners descend into the galleries. After describing the way in which the wires ought to be arranged, he says : "Every day, before the miners go to their work, several sparks must be let off in the galleries; then if an explosion ensues the gas will be destroyed; IF, on the contrary, after several sparks there is no explosion, there is no reason why there should be any with an ordinary lamp. The Perpetual Secre tary remarked that a similar practice had long been in use, though not with the induction-spark; men being sent down into the galleries with lights fixed to l ong poles, They creep along, holding the lights aloft, because fire-damp always accumulates at the roof of the gallery, and th us produce explosions which are harmless in proportion to the frequency with which the operation is performed." NATAL SUGAR.—Sugar has taken a proud position as our largest staple. It is difficult, in the absence of reliable statistics, to form an estimate of what the year' crop may have 15:mu, but it cannot have fallen far short m 3,000 tons. The yield has been generally satisfactory. o r very few estates less than a ton per acre has been averaged On many tw•o tons have been obtainel, and several field are cited as having yielded fully three tons per acre.—Aatal Mercury, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 24, Mt SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOG&S. Share) Railways. I Cl os ing Business Paid, price. done. Bir.. Wol., and Str. Val Blythe and Tyne. Best.,Sleat.,andhlid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian _.. ,Cork and Bandon Cornwall 8 81 8i 9 83 Als Its 119 i Do A A gets no div Do. B till6pe.4an.has been paid to B Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stir Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian at GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do Li do ,G t. S. and W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stoet Lancashire & Yorkshire London and illackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Len. & North Western Lon. & Swath Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln., Maryport and Carlisle. Do f shares Metropolitan Midland Do New _ Do Birmlng. dE Derby Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Bert —• Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwici , Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle...... •• • • North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpoo. Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and ,River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1866 Taff Vale - Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har. West Midland -Oxford. Do Newport Do Hereford 6 7 BRITISH POSSE Etailways 'A.tlantio & St Lawrence Liom.,Barodact.Cent Ind Gu. syer cent... Do. New . ...... Do. E. Shares... Buffalo and Laxe Huron Do. Preference Buffalo,Brant,&Godricli 6 p. at. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 187: Do. do. June 1, 18:4 Cleutta.zz S.Eastn. Cape Town ez Dock Scrii Eastn. Bengal gm. 6 p. Last Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. G Ext Do. do. H do. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Pref. Boucle ' Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 3d P. ef. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deferred (3t.lndiarenin.gua.sp.o Do. New gua. 5 p. a Do. January, 1882 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. (It. W. of Canada Shares Do. New ... Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 5i p. 0. do. '77-8.. Indian Branch Limited Madras. guar., 5 p. c. Do. 41 p. o. Extension De. do ........ , Do. Fifth Extension. 3lelb.Corp. A p. a. Buds. ilelb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. C. &torts*. Bds. Newßrurswiok a Canda Class A and B. N. itl.C'daB pa Ist pt bds &bide Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Punjaub Do. Do. • Do. Indus. St Flo.) Paid. all 100 35 37 16 17 88 90 101- 106 6i 7i 129 131 138 140 128 132 90 92 64 644 111 111} 66 07 103 105 40 44 1104 111 974 98i 54 644 1 2 )13 132 132 y 102 IC4 60& 61 24i 25i 1010 102 -d 576 686 89 90 127 130 14 24 p 76 78 pi 11% 121 123 39 40 64 68 33 85 90} 91i 103 106 7/ 81 36/ 37/ 94 10 , 8 86 r 173 175 6 7 t 3 t p 100 105 21 23 ,SIONS. Closing nioe. 60 62 i 034 id I p tt 6} 4 9i 77 82 77 8! 77 82 101 103 98 100 105 107 10411 ,105 i .f tp t tP 20 21 76 14 61 63 63 65 53 55 48 50 40 42 27 30 25 t 7 104 105 i 1 1021 1031 10 10t 10} 10i, 90 02 82 84 par 41 3 102 3u3 96 98 9.: 91 57 59 stock all 100 (100 100 2 all 160 k 100 stock' stock BtOOk 3 6 82 14 1024 103} 101 103 d i2p 103 p 103} 96 98 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. can.Gor.B p.o.J &Jai! 1877-81 100 103 105 104 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 102 104 Do. 6p. o. Mar. & Sept. 100 102 104 Do. Ep. c. Jan.&July. 10i 90 Ot 91 k Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 89 91 9t Cape G.Hope, 6 p .3,1873 100 106 108 104 k Do.Ap & Oot. 1880 100 107 109 Do. 1891, 100 1(8 110 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 110 112 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 101 104 Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 106 108 Natal Gov. 6 per cent. 100 106 108 -- N.B.Gov. 6 p.o.d a.&.1 ull 100 kOl 103 101 k Do. 6p. o.Ap. & Oot. 100 N. S.W. (.3 ov. 5 p 3.,180( 100 99 100 Du. sp. ma/3'a to 187( 100 99 101 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 99 101 New Zealand 6 p cent 100 109 111 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875. lOO 103 105 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 S. Aus G6p.0.1878.& up.. 100 109 111 Vio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&J uly 100 - , Do. to 6 p.o. An.&Got. 100 108 109 1081 BRITISH MINES. 2 I t j u l a i i ii i , , o b r r d i a A n m C o a n lg s a o m l. a G te o d l d .. _ 1 3 1 2 6 3 1 Devon G. Con.. (Taoist.) 1 560 670 East Bassett (Illoan).• 30 67 70 —• East Clogau Gold Ltd. East Caradon ..... 2.14.6 29k 30k East Cana Brea... 3.4.0 61 ft E. WlRussel (Tavistk ) 8.13.0 3k 4 Gam.&StAubyn(Gwen 582 7 9 (3 rest South Tolgus l7s 2k 3 G. Wheal Vor (Holston 40 33 35 Grenville 6.10. t 9k 91 Rend's-Foot (.• 8.12 88 40 Kingston Downs 4.18.0 3k 4 Lady Bertha Alargaret (Ilny Lelant 9i 15 17 llarke Valley.. 4 'Tyndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 2k 1k I 6 New Seton Di 85 90 —• North Downs 2l lf 11 N.Wh'l Basset(lllo4an , 3.1.0 1k 2 ' north Wheal Crofty i 2.6.9 4k 41 Par Consols= Blazey, ,1 20 Providence (Uny Lelnt.o , 100.7 40 42 South Caradon(StCleer 1k 450 470 S. Carn Brea (Illogan) — S. Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 40 50 Stray Park 30.17.6 25 27 - EanaarSilv.& Lead Min. ' fin Croft 9 98 19 West Basset (Illogan) lk 9 10 W C , radon (Liskeard 5 16 18 West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan) 54 90 95 Wheal Bullen(Redruth) 10 30 35 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLudeott ...... 3.5.8 14 2 Wheal Mary Ann (Lieu.) 8 12 14 Wheal lleton sBk 220 230 Wheal Trekawney (Lis.) 7 20 21 Wheal Union 3.17 14 2 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 1, 106 Great Western Orig. 4i per cent. pi:, 871 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. Ext., B 6 per cent., Ditto, ditto, C 6 per cent. 80 North British (Edin., Perth, and Dundee) 4 per cent., 78 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (Rm.) gua. 7 per cent., 17} Great Luxembourg, 10 San Paulo (11m.), gua. 7 per cent., 11} Ditto (all), 20 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 20i I'o a EIGN MINES. Mont. Aureos Brazil Gold Min. Co., 2} United Mexican (Lm;, 6i i BANKS. Alliance (tim.), Ditto, new, 52 Anglo Austrian, 7 1 Anglo-Italian, limited, 61 . Bank of London, 176 Bank of Utago, lim., 51 Think of Wales, Urn., 18/ Brazilian and Portuguese, lim., 131 British North American, 50 j Consolidated Bank, lim., 111 12 Continental, lira., 19 imperial Ottoman, 21 1 'sand Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 61 London Bank of Scotland, Rm., 22 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 53 4 London and Colonial (lira.), 181 } London and County, 631 London and Northern, lim., 22 London and South African, 251 London and 1% estminster, 05 Merchant liank,qiim., 221 Mercantile and Exchange, Urn., 19 New South Wales,)6l 51 Oriental Bank Corporation, 621 Provincial of Ireland,93l Scinde, Punjab, and Delhi, lim., 131 South E4stern, lirn., 51 Union of London, 581 MISCELLANEOUS. City Offices, rim., 5a Continental Union Gas, lira., 7-1 'ontract corporation, lim., Discount Corporation, 16k Egyptian Coin, and Trading, lira.; 5 English and Scottish Marine, lim., Fore-street Warehouse, lim., 7 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, llm., Vi Hudson's Bay, 19i Imperial Financial, lira., 81 f International Financial society, lfm., 11 Joint Stock Discount, lira., 7} London Financial Association, lim., Ditto, new, 15? London General Omnibus Company, 21 Midras Irrigation and Canal, Ditto, new, 201 Mercantile Credit Association, lim., 15 t National Dicount Company, lira., 141 Nova Scotia Gold and Land, Ditto, ditto, 3 2:1 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 8111 Rio de Janeiro City Improventents, lira., 27i Ditto;'( li, ‘1. 1 2 , imith, Knight, and Co., lint., 4 Societe Finaticiere d'Egypte, Rm., 6 Si 4 Universal Marine, Insurance, Inn., bi LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE DOBSON. This bankrupt had carried on a very extensive business as a merchant, in Great St. Helens. The bankruptcy took place a short time since. The creditors resolved to take the proceedings out of court. The present was an application with respect to certain moneys received by the assignees, which it was considered ought to be paid over to the trus tees. The case was adjourned. IN RE MACNAMARA. This bankrupt was described as of Navarino-terrace, clerk in the Inland Revenue Office, and this was an appli cation to stay proceedings and wind up out of court. The case was accordingly adjourned. (More ➢lr Commissioner Fane.) His Honour was occupied the whole of the morning in hearing arguments as to a deed of arrangement, in which the debtor had duly registered and obtained the certificate, but which was now disputed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SINGULAR CHARGE OF ASSAULTING A WlFE.—Oliver Kerby, a tall, strange-lookin g man, who gave his address No. 15, Gerard -street, Soho, was brought before Mr Knox on a warrant charged with assaulting his wife, Isabella Kerby. On the prisoner being placed in the dock he said—l hope this will appear in the papers. Mrs Isabella Kerby, a respectable-looking woman, said— Yesterday morning, about 2 o'clock, my husband came home, having been drinking, and gave me a blow on the head. About 10 o'clock he swore he would do for me if I did not comply with a demand he made. There were two workwomen in the room at the time. I was alarmed; and am afraid he will injure me. Ile has been going on like this for the past six weeks. Prisoner—l had taken nothing but water. There were blows struck, but it was in the dark. Mr Knox—Has the prisoner ever been locked up before ! Mrs Kerby—Yes, several times, and bound over. Inspector Draper—The prisoner has behaved in a very extraordinary manner all night. Prisoner—My wife has a large amount of money. She is highly connected, and belongs to a Somersetshire family. Her money is the root of it all. Emma Dawson, a workwom an in the service of Mrs Kerby, said—Yesterday urornin g the prisoner came home and tried to force his wife on tha bed, and said he would jump out of the window. Prisoner—lll use her I Have I not always used the most endearing terms to her ? Have I not asked her whether her heart is dead ? and whether her rhoney is not payable ? Witness—l do not think you h ave acted properly towards her. Prisoner—l did not ask that. I wished my wife to come to me to calm my agitated nerves. I have begged of her to cease her clatter. Witness—On Saturday I saw him strike his wife in the mouth and make it bleed. Prisoner—Accidentally, when she rushed to me. Mrs Mary Ann Smith, also employed by Mrs Kerby, said the prisoner's conduct is very different to what it used to be, but Ido not think he can help it. I saw Mrs Kerby's mouth bleeding on Saturday. Mr Knox—Was the prisoner drunk ? Prisoner—Oh, I never drink. I'm more sinned against than sinning. Mr Knox—l shall remand the prisoner for a week, and put a notice on the commitment to have his mind inquired into. Prisoner—Thank you—l wish to go to Coldbath Fields. It will be better for her that she removes all the traps before I come out—that is all. THAMES• SINGULAR DISPUTE BETWEEN Two FOREIGNERS.-- Siegismund Striemer, clerk and traveller, appeared before Mr Partridge to answer a summons, which charged him with detaining certain colours, valued at £l3 10s, the pro perty of Charles Kaelbel, manufacturer and merchant, of Carlisle-terrace, Fairfield-road, Bow. Mr Stoddart, solicitor, stated the case for the prosecution. The parties to this suit were foreigners. The complainant was almost a stranger to our country, and quite a stranger to our language. The defendant was engaged by Herr Kaelbel on the sth of December last, in the capacity of clerk and traveller, at a salary of £3 108 per week and 2} per cent. commission on sales effected, with one month's notice on either side. The complainant carried on his manu factory in Germany, and the goods he consigned to England. They were allowed to be deposited in premises in Bow, in the possession of the defendant, who was still in the com plainant's employ. On Friday, the 6th of the present month, the complainant having occasion for certain goods deposited on the premises in question, went there and de manded them. The defendant simply refused to give them up, and said he would make a hi 311 charge against him for seven weeks' eating and drinkin t ; and for warehouse room. There were no wages due to the, defendant on the 6th of May, and he ha I no right to detrein his master's goods. The defendant had injured his master in every possible way, and it was an unlucky thing to r the complainant he had ever been connected with him. The defendant was in prison a few years ago for debt, and h ad only a few months ago made an assignment of his property without paying a shilling to his creditors. Several judgments were now out against the defendant, and Herr' Kaelbel wanted an order for the immediate restoration of I lie property. The defendant said he had an t >bjection to the magistrate's jurisdiction. The goods he wso charged with detaining were worth £24, and the rnagit itrates of the police courts only had jurisdiction to the exte at of £l5, Mr Stoddart said the goods were valued at £l3 108, to give the magistrate jurisdiction. The complainant confirmed, lthrough the medium of an interpreter, all his solicitor had stated. He sent goods from time to time to the defendant's p lace for sale. At that time he was in Germany. He Put a n end to the oontract with the defendant in consequence of Striemer's misconduct, for not properly accounting for money received, and doing busi ness in various names. The defendant asked the comp lainant if he had made any agreement with him for warehou ;sing goods, and he replied in the negative. The defendant--I have demi Med rent of him and he refuses to pay me. The complainant denied the a ccuracy of this statement, acco unt was made out. He had offered to pay the amount a in n d o a s s a h i d , he or t, would ogivo p a ayanYj as t (3laims upon hi m if a p roper guarantee here was any just claim u pon him by his servant. The defendant said he was n o t ; a servan t, b u t an agen t, and the goods were worth £24. Th e co mplainant said the defendant had sold his goods in the names of Thompson, Brothers, and Co., Schuster, Brothers and Co., and other nat nes. Mr partridge said he would g ; i ve no op i n i on on th e case, w hi c h ought to be tried in the County Court. He must dismiss the summons. Mr Stoddart—Very well, si r . My client will certainly procee d against Streimer in the County Court. DIARKETS,TIiis Day. ai1.212 S. £2 10s to £4los Od ; clover, and straw, £1 4s to £1 108 per load, Trade slow. Mea-low 1) a. CUMBERLAND.' -r, lOs to £4 lOs ; clover, L 4 Os to £5 / od • and straw, 4s to £l. 14s per load. Trade inactive. —Meadow h £2lOB to £4 , •, WHITECILIPEL andlOs , cLover, L4 S o si s n' t i o rF £ s A slow demand. £4 Os to 103 Od ; strati v, £1 4s to £1 14s per load, 111110.s—Odi‘iii•eAadYciwl‘hiaAyI; COLONIAL. SUGAR—There has been ra l tirr more disposition on the part of the trade to purchase . 1 ( est India de s cripti ons , an d prices generally are well sustained. In the Refined Market quotations are unaltered. COFFEE—There continues to be a fair inquiry rates, fordescri col ption ial which have realised fully late and other ons are without materia l change. RICE—A few small p arcels Itave been disposed of, chiefly East India, which have realise I about former quotations. TALLOW—The market hits continued very quiet, although prices for both present and forward delivery are well maintained. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 40s 3d; May and June 40s to 40s 3d ; atld last three months, 43s 3d to 43s 6d per cwt. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE —(This Day. svii:_NA.Wrr,i—veSdalleßdu—rtLraotrod this day at no o iv n tee — ds_ r urio tri: t on h nk . LONDON, May West ; fresh breeze and fine weather. PORTSMOUTH, May Warden, for London. YARMOUTH, May 22.--whld N.W. — Sailed—Atlantic, 1 17 l i r n o d m i d N a C:a . W l Calcutta—tat Sailed—Resolution, linda, from for Quebec. r PLYMOUTH, May 23. Bonny, from Porto Rico. CLYDE, May 23.—Wind frompe Pernambuco—Helene, Mauritius—Shaftesbu r y , s H - 0 7 e f s r b o u r y for Nassau. ....'............ o f floe s ea! ,, and . Red Rove r , f rom BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVES END, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, May 23—Lightning, from Gottenbu rg _j ane, fZrealillanTd Tobago —mpji°ohni,Bunyan, from Wellington, N ew Melbour ne —Christiana, and 01'1 :Arne , Maria, fro m Holm stad—King Dove, from D a ntzie7.l . ree, from J ersey — Napoleon, from Gravelines—pijot, from Havre—Eliz a b et h, from Guernsey—Herold, f rom Hesldorf—Ter p si ch ore, from St. Thomas. Arrived, May 24--Nautilus, fro m St. Kitt's—Lewes, from Alexandria—Malcolm Brow n, from Trinidad—Look Out, from Genoa—Equity. from Porto Rico—Soph;a, and Concordia, from Guernsey--and Active, from T arrano va. Sailed, May 24.—Lond »a, steamer, for Gottenburg, DEAL, Tuesday Morning, Passed.—Mavrocordatos, screw steamer, from London, for Genoa—Congress, from Sunderland, for Penang. ' Anchored,—Arnica, bark, from Lagos, for London. The Late Debate on the Georgia, Bishopsgate-street, May 23. Mr Thomas Baring presents his compliments to the editor of The Sun, and will feel obliged by the insertion of the accompanying correspondence : (Copy.) " Bishopsgate-street, May 14, 1864. "My dear Lord,—ln the report of your speech of last night you are stated to have said— " I want you to consider the feelings with which tha Confederates regard these enormous reinforce ments which have been conveyed by the English people through the hands of Messrs Baring and Co., in violation of her Majesty's proclamation of neu trality.' "Until your lordship rose the mention of names had been avoided, in order not to give a persnnat character to a discussion of great national questions, and, unfortunately, not anticipating such a charge as you made, I was absent during your speech, and did not return to the House of Commons. As, however, such an accusation would not be lightly made $y you, and cannot lightly be treated by me, may I ask of you the favour to let me know to what proclamation you referred, and what are the terms of that proclamation which you consider to substan tiate your charge P—Believe me, ray dear lord, yours faithfully, (Signed) " THOMAS BARING, " The Lord Robert Cecil, M.P." (Copy.) " 11, Duchess-street, May 14, "My dear Mr Baring,—l beg to acknowledge your letter, which I received this evening, asking me to what procla mation I referred when I said that the munitions of war exported by Messrs. Baring and Co. to the Federal States have been conveyed in violation of her Majesty's proclama tion of neutrality. "In reply I beg ;o say that the proclamation of which I spoke is that issued May 13th, 1861, and that the passages in it to which I referred were the following : " ' We do hereby strictly charge and command all our loving subjects to observe a strict neutrality in and during the aforesaid hostilities, and to abstain from violating or contravening either the laws and statutes of the realm in this behalf, or the law of nations in relation thereto, as they will answer to the contrary at their peril. " ' And we do hereby further warn all our loving sub jects and all persons whatsoever entitled to our protection, that if any of them shall presume in contempt of this our Royal proclamation, and of our high displeasure, to do any acts in derogation of their duty as subjects of a neutral sovereign in the said contest, or in violation or contraven tion of the law of nations in that behalf, as for example and more especially . . .by carrying officers, soldiers, despatches, arms, military stores, or materials, or any article or articles considered and deemed to be contraband of war, according to the law or modern usage of nations, for the use or service of either of the said contending parties, all persons so offending will incur and be liable to the several penalties and penal consequences by the said statute or by the law of nations in that behalf imposed or denounced. " And we do hereby declare that all our subjects, and persons entitled to our protection, who may misconduct themselves in the premises will do so at their peril, and of their own wrong, and that they will in nowise obtain any protection from us against any liabilities or penal conse quences, but will, on the contrary, incur our high displeasure by such misconduct.' "In the same connection I may also quote the statement made by Mr Laird in your hearing, on the 27th of March, 1863, and not contradicted by you : " I have referred to the bills Gf entry in the Custom Houses of London and Liverpool, and I find that there have been vast shipments of implements of war to the Northern States. 1 find among those who have been engaged in these transactions the celebrated house :of Baring and Co.' " I presume that the word carrying' in the proclama tion includes those who employ others to carry, or abet others in carrying. In strictness it seems to me that the letter of the proclamation prohibits all transactions having for their object to supply contraband of war to either belligerent. But I think it is generally agreed that, as a rule of practice, its meaning must be interpreted by usage. All I claim is that the interpretation shall be impartial, and that the proclamation shall not be held to prohibit the ex port of one kind of contraband of war—viz., ships to one belligerent, while it is held to permit the export of another kind—vis., arms—to the other belligerent. Of course I am speaking exclusively of the proclamation of neutrality, and am not referring to any ships which may be pi oved to have violated the special enactments of the Foreign Enlist ment Act. " In the course of your note you intimate that I first gave a personal character to the discussion of a great national question.' I cannot plead guilty to the charge. I think you must have forgotten that you twice applied the word ' fraudulently' to the proceedings of the Liverpool firm that sent out the Georgia—a firm of the highest respectability, whose name is well known, and is, indeed, mentioned in the papers that have been presented to Parliament. The word conveys a severe imputation—probably, in reference to the conduct of a British merchant, the very severest you could have made. I cannot admit that it was I who gave a personal character to the discussion of a great national question.' " The name of the house of Baring was only introduced in order to show how unfair and one-sided were the charges which were made in the course of the debate against those who sent out the Georgia and other skips which afterwards became ships of war, It was said that they acted in fraud of our neutrality, and that they were stirring up feelings of rancour between two friendly nations. Those who were accused were not there to defend themselves ; and it did seem to me only fair to show how little they were really open to censure, by pointing to proceedings equally in vio lation of the letter of the Queen's proclamation, and equally irritating in their effect to the feelings of a friendly nation on the part of one of the first mercantile houses in the world—one to whose authority no Federal advocate would be likely to demur. " I learn for the first time from your note that you were not present in the house when I spoke. It never occurred to me that you were likely to leave before the discussion you had raised was finished ; and the seat you usually occupy is so exactly behind mine that I could not see that you were away when I was speaking—Believe me, yours very faithfully, (Signed) "ROBERT G. CECIE. " Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. " P.S.—lf you should desire any further explanation of anything I have said, my direction for the next week will be, ' . Poste liestante, Bruxelles. " (Copy.) "Bishopsgate-street, May 18, 1864. "My dear Lord,—l found on return to town yesterday your letter of 14th inst. " Before you assumed that my firm had been mainly in strumental in conveying assistance to the Federals in vio lation of her Majesty's proclamation of neutrality it would have been well that you should have acquainted yourself with the part which my firm really has taken in these matters. lam not at all prepared to admit that those who have been instrumental in forwarding munitions of war either to the Federal or Confederate States have thereby violated her Majesty's proclamation. On the contrary, it was notorious that such shipments were taking place, and not only was no intimation given on the part of her Majesty's Government that the parties engaged in them were in any way infringing the laws, international or otherwise; but, on the contrary. the right of neutrals to sell to both or either of the belligerents has been fully re cognised. I am, therefore, justified in assuming that the parties are not open to that imputation; but, be that as it may, my firm has not, in fact, been so engaged. In those matters we have acted merely as bankers representing large banking establishments in the United States, which opened credits with my firm in favour of parties to whom orders were given, but not through us for the purchase and transmission , of warlike stores for the use of the Federal Government. We took no part in giving these orders or in the execution of them. All that we had to do was, when the shipping documents were furnished to us to give effect to the credit lodged in favour of the parties furnishing those supplies, and to see that they were properly forwarded to their destination. " I cannot, therefore, admit that in the conduct of these proceedings we have infringed either the letter or the spirit of her Majesty's proclamation. " With reference to my having characterised the proceed• ings of the parties charged with equipping vessels of war for the use of the Confederate Government as fraudulent, I did not thereby intend to stigmatise as fraudulent the mere fact of such equipment, illegal as such equipment undoubtedly would be, but my remark had reference to the manner in which these proceedings were carried out. As I have already observed, it was perfectly well known that warlike stores were ordered in this country for the use of the Federal and Confederate Governments, but in the case of the vessels which are supposed to have been equipped for the use of the Confederate States every species of concealment has been resorted to in order to cover the real intentions of the parties, and it was in this view of the subject that I alluded to these transactions as being fraudu lEnt. When Mr. Laird named last year my firm, in com mon with others, as concerned in the shipment of arms and ammunition to the United States, I did not think that any observation was required from me, as he only mentioned as fact unaccompanied by any charge of illegality or impro priety. " I ought certainly, as you say, to have been present during your speecia ; but from the previous temper of the debate 1 had not anticipated any personal observation, and I had intended to return if the debate continued. As, how ever, I was prevented, although from my own fault, from making any remark upon your charge, and as everything that, falls from your lordship must have great weight, you will, I suppose, have no oijection to the publication of this correspondence v hen it closes,—Believe me, my dear lord, faithfully yours, (Signed) "THOMAS BARING. "The Lord Robert Cecil, DI,P., Bruseels," (Copy,) " Brussels, May 20, 1864. "My dear Mr. Baring,--I beg to acknowledge your letter of the 18th instant, which I received to-day. I confess that I am unable to follow the construction you place upon the language of the Queen's proclamation. It seems to me, so far as I am in a position to judge, that the transactions of your firm, as now described by you, fall within the letter of the prohibition which I quoted at length in my last letter. The proclamation forbids the Queen's subjects to carry' contraband of war to either belligerent. You tell me that warlike supplies have been ordered for the use of the Fede ral Government, and that your firm has been engaged in ' seeing that they were properly forwarded to their destina tion.' In other words, you have been superintending the ' carrying,' which is pointedly forbidden by the proclama tion. At the same time I most fully grant that a very much laser interpretation has been put upon the proclamation both by public opinion in this country, and (what is of more importance) by herMej esty's Government themselves, and that the practical result of that interpretation has been to make the clause I have quoted inoperative. Under these circumstances it clearly follows that the transactions in question cannot be looked upon as in any degree censurable or improper. That such is, in fact, the state of the case, is sufficiently indi cated, if other proof were wanting, by the fact that opera tions of this kin :1 have been countenanced by such a house as yours. But my complaint is, that in many recent discussions this latitude of interpretation has not been fairly extended to both sides. Ships are contraband of war just as much as, and no more than, arms, and the exportation of the one, so far as international law is concerned, is as legitimate a transaction as the exportation of the other. There seems to be an inclination, however, among Federal advocates, to put the two upon a different footing in that respect, and to assume in defiance of international prece dents, that the exporter of ships' makes private war, or commits a fraud on our neutrality' in some sense in which tbose phrases are not applicable to the exporter of arms. Those who, like me, believe, such a distinction to be groundless and unjust are compelled, therefore, when an attack is made upon the arms who sell ships to the Confe derates, to insist on the exactly parallel character of the transactions entered into by those who sell warlike stores to the Federals. "With respect to the personal' character of the debate, to which you again refer, I must repeat the observation that it, in fact, began with your opening speech. Had you been satisfied with passing a general censure upon those who have sold ships to the Confede rates, or who have in your opinion broken the Foreign Enlistment Act, I should undoubtedly been guilty of giving a personal character to the debate, if in such a case I had referred specially to any particular house that had 'exported arms to the Federals. But you designated a particular firm as a special mark of your severe accusa tions—the Liverpool firm that sent out the Georgia. That you did not utter their names was of small importance, for those names may be found in a public document, and were well known to all who were familiar with the question. " Before I conclude this letter you must forgive me if I enter a word of protest against the accusation of fraud which you made against that firm, and which in your last letter you repeat. Concealment ict not necessarily fraud. They had two fait grounds of concealment which justified them employing it. One was the course pursued by the Govern ment, the other was the vigilance of the Federals. The Go vernment, actuated by politic considerations, whose gravity I do not underrate, but which should have been submitted to Parliament before they were allowed to operate in preju dice of private interests and rights, was harassing this particular trade by every means, legal and illegal, within its reach. On the other hand, the spies of the Unitei States embassy were in every port ; and a Federal frigate was always at hand of suffi cient force to give effect to their information toy capturing so important an article of contraband the moment she had left British waters. Under these circumstances I think a shipbuilder might fairly keep his own counsel without ex posing himself to the charge of fraud. "1 trust I may have persuaded you that the proceedings of your house were introduced by me into the debate merely for the purpose of strengthening my case on behalf of those who I thought were being hardly dealt with, and not in any spirit hostile to yourself. Of course I have no sort of objection to the publication of the correspondence.—Believe me yours very faithfully, (Signed) " T. Baring, Esq., M.P." "ROBERT R. CECIL. Launch of the Prince Albert, Yesterday another rather important addition was made to our iron clad fleet by the successful launch of this fine vessel from Messrs. Samuds's yard at Poplar. The Prince Albert has a double claim to defensive strength, inasmuch as she is not only iron cased, but has her battery in cupolas, or circular turrets also. It would be, of course, useless to deny that these turret ships have numerous oppo nents to their claims to be considered as efficient sea going war frigates, and that these oppo nents include not only some of the most distin guished officers of the Royal navy, but some of our most experienced iron-shipbuilders as well . Certainly, the practical experience of rough every day warfare which has been illustrated by the Federal gunboats constructed on this principle would not lead us to be over sanguine as to the success of ships built after the same pattern, if it were not also known that almost everything connected with the guns and plating and speed of the American turret-ships was so far behind our own as really to leave no safe data on which to found a comparison between the two. The attempts which in America have been made to work out the theory of turret ships have been by no means so comprehensive and perfect as to warrant our Government in consider ing them as final, and, whatever may be the differ ences of opinion which prevail here as to the value of the principle, it is satisfactory to see that the Admiralty are bent on trying it with all the auxi liary aids to success, which form, horse-power, and perfect workmanship can contribute. The length of the Prince Albert turret-ship over all is 2401 t., while her breadth is as much as 48, proportions which ',give her a rather heavy and unwieldy ap pearance, and which are certainly like to tell against a very high rate of speed in heavy water. Her depth is no less than 28ft., and her burden, in tons, 2,529. All the details relating to her general principle of construction are almost precisely similar to those adopted in the Warrior, the Black Prince,' and other of our armour ships. The same care is shown to give extra strength by longitudinal brae ings ; there are the same wing passages along the broadside, which virtually make a double ship of her; she has no external keel, but two bilge plates at each side, which are supposed to answer the same purpose in giving her stability. The plating, too, is the same as on the Warrior, 4iin. iron and 18in. of teak, but the Prince Albert is plated from end to end, instead of only over the broadside. At he extreme end of the bows and stern, however, the thickness of the armour is diminished gradu ally to three inches, and, instead of going 5 feet below the water-line, as in other armour clads, it is only taken down 4 feet—a slightness of immer sion which seems to bring the vulnerable parts dan gerously near the surface. Her upper deck is of pine, with a three-quarter inch iron deck beneath it to keep out shells —a thickness which the recent ex • perience of the Danish ironclad the Roife Krake has shown to be insufficient. She is to be furnished with furnaces for heating shot and melting iron, and is to be driven by engines of 500 horsepower nominal —an amount of horsepower which certainly seems small when compared with the tonnage or the area of her midship section. The screw is to be four bladed, and not to lift. On deck are to be four tur rets or shields, as they are indifferently called, with an ironplated pilot house in the bows. Three of the turrets are 22ft diameter and one of 20ft. The pilot house is a mere oval about 6ft wide by 12ft long, but plated, like the turrets, with 51 inches of armour over 7 inches of diagonal planking. All these tur rets, of course, are movable, and are revolved on turntables worked from the main deck below. Two of the turrets, it is understood, are to carry two guns each, and two are to carry one each of the heaviest calibre that can be got. All the turrets being placed amidships the bulwarks round the upper deck have to be movable, and are accordingly made of light iron fastened by hinges to the deck, so as to be cap able of being lowered at a moment's notice, leaving the guns free to fire anywhere. The launch yester day was most successfully accomplished, Miss Ada Samuda naming the vessel as it glided rapidly into the river. She was sent afloat with the lower streak of armour on from end to end, and with the midship p or tion of her broad si de entirely plated. The rest of her fitting and equipment will be proceeded with at Woolwich, but nearly, if not quite, a year is likely to elapse before she is commissioned nod afloat an effective member of the Channel squadron. SECOND EDITION. 13.14.1 446.4 11q t 97i 54 112 f 14 11 132 101 i Business done 294 104* I SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. EPSOM RACES.—Tms DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CRAVEN STAKES. Fairwater Cutaway ..•. 2 Blarney Five ran, LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. DERBY. 11 to 2 agst Scottish Chief (taken freely) 6to 1 agst General Peel (taken) 7to 1 agat Cambuscan (taken) 15 to 2 agst Birchbroom (taken) 15 to 1 agat Baragah (taken) 18 to 1 agat Coast Guard (taken) 100 to 3 agst Ackworth (taken) 40 to 1 agst Hollyfox (taken) THE OAKS. 4to 1 agst Hie de l'A.ir (taken) ARRlVED—Benanoar, Izaak Walton, Attraction, Odine, Lovelace, Ely, and Eltham. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, TATTERSALL'S, LAST EVENING. This afternoon witnessed as numerous a gathering o f th e right sort of racing men as ever the lawn could boast of on any like occasion; but although it was conceded that there never was more money in the market for speculation, it was also admitted that the investments were disproportionate. The favourites were all firm, and yet the afternoon had worn on considerably before the medium began to circulate with freedom. General Peel and Cambuscan were im movable at 5 to 1 and 6 to 1 respectively, but at half a point more each they readily met with support—in the few instances where an opportunity was given. There could be no manner of doubt as to the genuineness of the Birch Broom commission, which was repeated to-day to some tune, and after all available B's to 1 were picked up—on the quiet —to some £6OO or £7OO, 7 to 1 was the highest price obtainable : Scottish Chief again showed marked signs of coming to his old price in the betting, 8 to 1 being taken kindly at the finish, his owner, among other bets, having taken 2000 to 1800 that Scottish Chief beat Cambuscan. Blair Athol was up and down as usual, inasmuch as that at the commencement of business as little as 10 to 1 was taken; but in the course of the day 100 to 8 was laid several times, and 1300 to 100 once, 90 to 20 being accepted about a situa tion. Paris, Coastguard, and Baragah were all "off," as was also Ely, about whom, however, 20 to 1 was booked to about V.OO. Lord Glasgow's "second string" was very frequently inquired after, 1000 to 30 and 30 to 1 being the prices at which his backers were mostly accommodated, 28 to 1 being his closing price (offered). Historian and Valiant were quite out of form. Towards the close of business a little change-ringing took place with Ackworth and Copen hp gen, 40 to 1 being taken kindly about the former, while the "old Cope" was friendless at 33 to 1. The last bet laid was 1500 even on Ackworth against Copenhagen, which may afford some sort of key to the place-betting on the defeated, but not disgraced, son of Fazzoletto, his "party" having also gone a " raker" to win. Closing prices : DERBY. 11 to 2 agat General Peel (taken) 6to 1 agat Cambascan (offered, take 13 to 2) 7to 1 agst Birch Broom (offered, take Bto 1) 8 to 1 agst Scottish Chief (taken) 100 to 8 agst Blair Athol (taken and offered) 15 is 1 agst Paris (offered) 15 to 1 agst Coastguard (offered) 15 to 1 agst Baragah (offered) 20 to 1 agst Ely (taken and offered) 28 to 1 agst Strafford (take 30 to 1) 33 to 1 agst Historian (offered) 33 to 1 agst Valiant (offered) 33 to 1 agst Copenhagen (offered) 40 to 1 agst Ackworth (taken) 40 to 1 agst Prince Arthur (taken and offered) 1000 to 15 agst Hollyfox ;taken) 1000 to 15 agst Idler (taken and offered) 1000 to 5 agst Warrior (taken) 2000 to 1800 on Cambuscan agst Scottish Chief (taken) 1500 even on Ackworth agst Copenhagen (taken) 900 to 200 agst Blair Athol being one of the first three (taken) 110 to 20 eget Ely being one of the first three (taken) 100 to 8 agat Ackworth being one of the first three (taken) THE OAKS. 4to 1 agst Fille de l'Aair (taken) Bto I bar two (offered) DERBY SCRA.TCHINGS .—Forager, about 11 25 a.m., Monday, May 23; Grevillo and Vauxhall, at 4 18 p.m., Monday, May 23. THE FRENCH DERBY. The Prix du Jockey Club of 20,000 f, for 3-yr-olds. Entry, 1,000 f; 600 f forfeit, or 500 f only if declared. Weight—colts, 1081bs ; fillies, 1051bs. Distance-2,400 metres (a mile and a half). 55 subs. M. Delamarre's Bois Roussel (Flatman) 1 M. Lunel's Affidavit.. Mr T. Carter's Civility M, Schickler's Poudriere The following also ran:—Ninon de l'Enclos, Bayard, Tortocolis, Beatrix, Commega, Sonchamp, Boucioaut, Arcturus, and Scesvola. Betting-5 to 4 agst Bois Roussel, 4to 1 agst Beatrix, 6 to 1 each agst Bayard and Comme-ca, 12 to 1 agst Ninon de l'Enclos, 15 to 1 each agst Affidavit and Arcturus, 25 to 1 agst any other. The lot got away well in a line, but by the time they had gone over the quarter of a mile which separates the starting post from the stands, had settled down into places. Bou cicaut at this moment led, with Bayard coming next, then Ninon, Comme-ca, Arcturus, Bois Roussel, and Beatrix, in the order named, the last three being Poudriere, Torticolis, and Civility. After passing the booths Bayard mastered his jockey and rushing to the front took a lead of six or eight lengths, which he maintained for a short time, and then suddenly shut up, and went to the rear. Along the road before the villas the only incident was the gradual working up of Civility and Poudriere, who had hitherto been running at the tail. After passing the stables the four leading horses formed a line abreast across the course, with Bois Roussel running a couple of lengths behind. The quartette were, however, beaten in ascending the hill, and by the time they had reached the corner were no longer in the race. Bois Roussel, who had been running steadily biding his time, now found himself almost alone in front, the only horses near him being Affidavit, Ninon, and Bea trix. Along the straight the pace which had before been good, slackened, and the position then remained the same up to within 200 yards of the stand. Affidavit was then seen to make an effort, and in a moment was alongside of Bois Roussel. For a moment M. Lunel's colt showed in front, but Flatman, with an application of the whip, again brought the favourite up to the mark ; the lead was re covered, and Bois Roussel increasing his advance up to the post passed a winner by a length and a half. Civility and Poudriere passed Ninon and Beatrix at the stands, and came in third and fourth, Mr. Carter's filly finishing a couple of lengths in the Affida -it, and Poudriere a length behind Civility. Beatrix and Ninon were fifth and sixth, and the rest scattered over the course anywhere. Value of the stakes 52,000 fr„ deducting 2,000 fr, for the second. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864. Jrwm. Wye Maidstone 3 Asoot Hampton l5 Newton Odiham Bibury Beverley ..,.....•••••• 22 Stockbridge 23 Chelmsford . , 2B New Forest Runt 28 Ne 'nestle-0114'3'ns •• • • 8 Worcester (Summer) • • 30 Ipswich AMERICAN BONNETS._ Tbe present War has developed rather than brid led extravagance in the d for luxuries o f every United States; and the de mo ! description, jewelry, diam onds, silks, and ex changes drain the c ountry o f i ts reason, think the f as hi ona b le ladies of New York, w h y gold is laces, never seems T h e most exquisite of th ese come to have been greater. Mr. Chases back, th e y h ave passe d resolu fsrposmcisa,barnodadth;isfoisreitghne toinfamy the Republi can matron who shall , so dear. F or t h e sake of lighten any imported for e i gn goo d s. O ut of love Brutus sa cr ifi ced his son. From a m trhase Yeit the mother of C or i o l anus b ro k e sf i t onii hereafterworgxi s t i ha n dri se l v o scop a eto d uniu unrt o g: u her son's ambition and his heart. A love of coun try pro m p ts the fair citizens to surrender all but native articles of dress. The sweetest thing in bonnets more pa rep ras re o c l i s su a s re s d t e it a l r ; precious, 's b m u b t l o s ne im 's s h a ll not make th em f orget America, Gloves, French boots, an Massachusetts icteanntiotnvYoife even more precious still; and—in humble imitation of the women of 1776, who gave up tea in order not to pay tribute to a British tyrant—the New York and Boston women of 1861 have signed a self-denying ordinance which ought to make them famous among the posterities. Tho badge to be worn by the delicate Covenanters is a black bee, We know from the greatest of historians that the women of Attica used to wear a grasshopper in their hair—the grasshopper being au emblem of native and aboriginal pride, The bee symbo lises perhaps an idea of the same kind, with the further idea of female industry engrafted upon it, Unlike the wo men of Attica, the Covenanters, however, wear their bee not on the head, but upon the shoulder. It was felt that a bee in the bonnet was not the kind of symbol young ladies who are studying political economy would wish, if they could avoid it, to adopt. Why the bee should he black admits of several excellent explanations. The hue is, doubtless, a sign of devotion to the cause of the negro. A black bee is, so to speak, a nigger bee, which ought to regarded by white bees with affectionate sympathy, as being, after all, a bee and a brother, in spite of differences of colour.—L9ndon Revicw. •thart 100 Sk I 20 20i 10 LOO 100 stock stock stock stook stook stook stook stook 60 - 1031 IC7 6 1048